[HPforGrownups] Hypothesis for Trelawney's First Real Prediction

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 58578

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Anita Hillin wrote:

>   Your thoughts have mirrored mine, to some extent.  I wondered if her first
> real prediction was Lily and James' death, which would be similar to your
> betrayal theory.  Predicting Harry's death might then be a favorite pastime
> for her, given her spot-on success with his parents.

On the other hand, I wonder if she even remembers her first real
prediction at all.  She certainly didn't remember delivering her second
real prediction and was quite unwilling to believe Harry when he told her
about it.  My impression is that she only believes in her fake
predictions, not her real ones, because the real ones just seem so
terribly unlikely.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"